Building a $B Fintech Company- Scott Galit (Payoneer)
... our TAM and our global coverage were the same as they were in 2011 Right So we weren't addressing any larger TAM than we ...
Senior Advisor & Director, Payoneer Global
Search every verified Scott Galit interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Scott Galit, Senior Advisor and Director at Payoneer Global, has spoken about the company's growth strategy and the challenges of building a fintech business. In a 2018 talk, he described fintech as having "more friction" than other businesses due to risk, regulation, and compliance, and said that Payoneer's total addressable market (TAM) and global coverage remained the same from 2011 to its 2021 IPO, but that the company expanded its serviceable addressable market (SAM) by adding products and market segments. Galit stated that by the time of the IPO, Payoneer had expanded its SAM to an estimated $3 trillion, providing "a credible path as a public company to a billion dollars of revenue." In a 2022 interview, Galit discussed Payoneer's role in the digitalization of global commerce, noting partnerships with companies like Amazon, Google, and Airbnb, as well as banks integrating Payoneer's payment capabilities. He said the company was "exploring" cryptocurrency but proceeding carefully due to varying global regulatory comfort, and mentioned collaboration on a blockchain infrastructure for central bank digital currencies called the Regulated Liability Network. During a 2020 panel on COVID-19's impact, Galit said Payoneer began dealing with the pandemic in January with its teams in China and Hong Kong, and that the company adjusted its working capital platform because machine learning models could not be relied upon during "great crisis and uncertainty."
“More friction makes fintech businesses slower and more expensive to build than other businesses.”
“By the time we went public in 2021, our TAM and global coverage were the same as they were in 2011, but we had added meaningful products and market segments that expanded our SAM to an estimated $3 trillion. As a result, we were able to show a credible path as a public company to a billion dollars of revenue.”
“We're certainly looking at crypto and exploring things, but regulatory comfort and appetite for crypto varies around the world — today there are stories India is going to ban cryptocurrency and we've seen that in China — so we're preparing to offer capabilities carefully so we don't undermine small businesses or move t...”
“We collaborated with some big banks on a new blockchain infrastructure for central bank digital currencies called the Regulated Liability Network, an idea to bring CBDCs and digital money from companies like Payoneer and big banks onto a common platform, and we're working with firms like Citibank on these exploratory i...”
“We started dealing with COVID in January with our teams in China and Hong Kong and our customers there, and we recognized just how correlated activity all over the world was.”
“Machine learning models sound amazing, but in a time of such great crisis and uncertainty you can't really count on the models to appropriately incorporate all the relevant data points and make the right decisions; so we needed to make some pretty quick changes to our working capital platform and adjust our approach.”
“Everett maybe but understand that you're in the trust business and it's fragile”
“What you start to see is privacy is actually now one of the top things that almost any government now feels that they have both an obligation and a right to protect the privacy of the citizens in their country”
... our TAM and our global coverage were the same as they were in 2011 Right So we weren't addressing any larger TAM than we ...
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With COVID-19 disrupting economies around the world, there’s no doubt the pandemic has affected the local ecosystem as well. We invited 3 CEOs of Israeli FinTech unicorns – Hippo, Fundbox and Payoneer – to discuss how they are navigating this new reality, what opportunities they see and how they are adjusting their operational models.
In this "highlights" video from Viola's FinTech Forum meetup featuring Payoneer CEO, Scott Galit on “Building a FinTech Unicorn", Scott talks about Payoneer's journey and offers valuable tips for FinTech entrepreneurs. Watch a specific highlight in the video using the TimeStamp links below: 0:18 4 Mega-Trends of the 4th Industrial Revolution that have informed Payoneer's "world view" 3:53 Important to understand whether you're part of an Evolution vs Revolution 4:06 Evolution vs Revolution Example #1: Why China achieved better mobile payment capabilities than Korea 6:02 Evolution vs Revoluti…
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